Democrats know all about herding cats but looks like Donald's finally learning about harnessing crazy.
Convicted Felon Donald Chump lost the 2020 presidential election and that result led him further into the grip of insanity. He attempted to violently overthrow the election and should have been either put in prison or faced the death penalty. Instead, an unneeded sense of decorum and let's-just-put-it-behind-us allowed him to mingle in polite society where he nursed his wounds and enlarged his base among the criminally insane.
Thanks to grifters such as Glenneth Greenwald and Matt Taibbi, his first term was rewritten in real time. Chump invented 'the deep state' -- a group that already existed according to the late Bill Moyers but was defined differently by Chump. And Greenwala dn Taibbi and other grifters lied repeatedly to make him come off as a warrior against the deep state.
We have neither the time nor the interest to document in full what we've already spent years documenting. So instead, we'll just pick one pet cause the three shared: Julian Assange. The grifters insisted Chump was going to pardon him and then Julian would finally be free of the UK legal system. It was coming. Chump was the real thing.
In the end, all that came was Greenwald, on the carpet as he licked the toes of a large man he paid to degrade him while both were high on meth.
That drug usage -- something Taibbi knows all about -- also clouded their minds allowing them to make excuses for Chump leaving the White House without ever addressing Julian Assange. The drugs also allowed them to refuse credit to President Joe Biden who, in the end, did not demand Assange be handed over to the US and face trial here for the 'crime' of journalism.
It was really something to watch the grifters celebrate Julian's release while failing to credit the Biden administration (or, specifically, Caroline Kennedy, the US Ambassador to Australia who put a lot of weight into getting Julian released).
Chump was recruiting the crazy and grifters like Greenwald and Taibbi were helping him. The crazier the theory Chump put out, the more insane the supporter he won. The deep state was against him! The deep state wanted to continue pedophilia! The deep state ousted him because he was shutting down their pedophile rings!
If this nonsense is a shocker to you, you weren't paying attention.
And you've got no real excuse. Roseanne is a talented comedian and she's also bat s**t insane. Her Tweets were not about racism. They were about crazy. You didn't grasp what was in front of you. Because, depending upon the day of the week, she was a victim of child abuse, she's sensitive to others being abused. And her Tweets were nothing but crazy about how Chump was saving the children! Saving them!!!!
These lunatics believed this crap and even now most media won't tell you about that. Even as Epstein has blown up, the media won't tell you that grifter outlets have spent years lying about Chump busting this pedophile ring and that pedophile ring and the government's after him for that reason and!!!!!
Chump lumbered back into the White House in January. Weeks later, Pam Bondi was telling the world that the Epstein client list was on her desk, waiting for her to peruse and release it. She also invited grifters that she called social influencers.
Our corporate media let it stop at that: social influencers.
No, these are the crazies who distributed the poisoned Kool-Aid regularly. They are the ones who told gullible Americans over and over for years that the US government was part of a global pedophile ring and only Chump was objecting to it.
The attack on trans women and others falls into that. Every lie of "protect the girls" led to eye rolls among rational people who grasped trans girls are not a threat to non-trans girls but for his enraged and deluded base, it was coded -- he'll take on the trans just like he's taken on the pedophiles.
Since everyone doesn't watch TRUE CRIME or DATELINE, let's go to WIKIPEDIA for this overview of Jeffrey Epstein:
In 2005, police in Palm Beach, Florida, began investigating Epstein after a parent reported that he had sexually abused her 14-year-old daughter. Federal officials identified 36 girls, some as young as 14 years old, whom Epstein had allegedly sexually abused.[9] Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute.[10] He was convicted of only these two crimes as part of a controversial plea deal, and served almost 13 months in custody but with extensive work release.[11]
Epstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York.[12][13] He died in his jail cell on August 10, 2019.[14] The medical examiner ruled that his death was a suicide by hanging.[15] Epstein's lawyers have disputed the ruling, and there has been significant public skepticism about the true cause of his death, resulting in numerous conspiracy theories.[16][17] The Federal Bureau of Investigation stated in 2025 that it would release video evidence supporting the conclusion that Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in his jail cell;[18] however, when the DOJ released the footage in July 2025, one minute of footage was missing,[19] and the video was found to have been modified despite the FBI’s claim that it was raw.[20]
Since Epstein's death precluded the possibility of pursuing criminal charges against him, a judge dismissed all criminal charges on August 29, 2019. Epstein had a decades-long association with the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who recruited young girls for him,[21] leading to her 2021 conviction on U.S. federal charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy for helping him procure girls, including a 14-year-old, for child sexual abuse and prostitution.[22][23][24]
So Jeffrey Epstein trafficked girls and women (with Ghislaine's help). And, while out of the White House, Chump insisted a cover up too place, that Epstein was murdered and did not commit suicide, that a global conspiracy was behind it -- he insisted so many things but it boils down to Mighty Chump was going to save us all 'whether they wanted to be saved or not' as he declared at his Marvin Gardens Nazi rally.
Now no one wants to deal with crazy. We don't want to deal with crazy. There's enough in the real world without having to carry every other burden. But the media didn't deal with it and if they had it might not have made a difference.
These were crazy people begging to be lied to. They were easy marks because they wanted so desperately to be conned that they were easily tricked.
Had the media dealt with every day for a full month, it might have made some headway among the Make America Insane Again crowd.
The media could have easily pointed out the obvious.
Chump is lying, you know that because this happened under him in 2019. If he was telling the truth, he could have addressed it while president (January 2017 through January 2020). This happened on his watch. The media could have pointed out that Chump and Epstein were neighbors, that the two men were friends.
They didn't. And if you were counting on YOUTUBE to help, you were out of luck What you got from the 'left' on YOUTUBE tended to be praise for grifter Glenneth Greenwald -- praise from Krystal Ball, praise from THE VANGUARD boyz. He was putting out lies, but they didn't care. They probably still won't call him out.
Last week was quite the week for Chump.
He claimed that Secretary of Defense Losse Lips Hegseth had -- for a third time -- cut off weapons to Ukraine without informing Chump. The flood that hit Texas on a Friday resulted in Kristi Noem yammering in front of the cameras the following Saturday but waiting three days before releasing the needed funds to start rescue efforts. Thursday, and CNN) reported:
As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late
last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency leapt
into action, preparing to deploy critical search and rescue teams and
life-saving resources, like they have in countless past disasters.
But almost instantly, FEMA ran into bureaucratic obstacles, four officials inside the agency told CNN.
As CNN has previously reported, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — whose department oversees FEMA — recently enacted a sweeping rule aimed at cutting spending: Every contract and grant over $100,000 now requires her personal sign-off before any funds can be released.
For FEMA, where disaster response costs routinely soar into the billions as the agency contracts with on-the-ground crews, officials say that threshold is essentially “pennies,” requiring sign-off for relatively small expenditures.
In essence, they say the order has stripped the agency of much of its autonomy at the very moment its help is needed most.
“We were operating under a clear set of guidance: lean forward, be prepared, anticipate what the state needs, and be ready to deliver it,” a longtime FEMA official told CNN. “That is not as clear of an intent for us at the moment.”
For example, as central Texas towns were submerged in rising waters, FEMA officials realized they couldn’t pre-position Urban Search and Rescue crews from a network of teams stationed regionally across the country.
In the past, FEMA would have swiftly staged these teams, which are specifically trained for situations including catastrophic floods, closer to a disaster zone in anticipation of urgent requests, multiple agency sources told CNN.
But even as Texas rescue crews raced to save lives, FEMA officials realized they needed Noem’s approval before sending those additional assets. Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN.
Today, William Vaillancourt (THE DAILY BEAST) reports:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency didn’t answer thousands of phone calls after the Texas floods last week because it had fired call center contractors.
Records obtained by The New York Times show that FEMA laid off contractors the night of July 5, when flood waters were receding but still high, and when damage assessment was taking place. It took Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem until Thursday—five days later—to renew the contractors’ contracts.
After taking office, Noem created a policy where she must personally approve expenses totaling $100,000 or more.
The contrast in two-way communication between July 5 and the following days is stark. Before the contracts at four call center companies expired that night, FEMA answered 3,018 of 3,027 calls.
On July 6, however, it answered only 846 of 2,363 calls. Data from July 7 shows an even worse level of responsiveness: 2,613 of 16,419 calls.
Ariana Baio (INDEPENDENT) reported, "Noem eventually approved FEMA’s request on Monday, nearly three days after the initial flooding occurred, sources told CNN." Ruth pointed out, "Monday. She was grandstanding in front of cameras last Saturday talking about the flood. She was posting INSTAGRAM photos Sunday, showing off that artificial rat's nest she calls hair. As a general rule, Cabinet secretaries should never look as though they could walk onto the set of a REAL HOUSEWIVES taping and be mistaken for a performer on the show."
They failed -- Chump and Noem failed. As well as the acting chief of FEMA David Richardson that no one can apparently find since the flood. 129 confirmed deaths, a Chump failure.
But while that failure resulted in deaths, what really rocked Chump world last week was the Epstein client list. US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that there was no Epstein client list. She then insisted people misunderstood her February public statements that the list was on her desk and waiting for her vetting before being released.
She and the administration thought that was the end of it.
But all hell broke loose.
Having harnessed the crazy to get back into the White House, Chump was shocked to learn that they wouldn't just let the Epstein matter go.
In Tuesday's Cabinet meeting, the press asked about Epstein and Chump thundered -- "Are we still talking about that guy!" -- tried to distract -- "This guy has been talked about for years, we have Texas, we have this [referring to the Ukraine war], and people are still talking about this creep?”
Too bad for Chump, that wasn't the end of it. The crazy outside the administration was enraged and, turns out, two crazies in the administration weren't taking the news any better. Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel made a lot of money grifting online over the Epstein files and claiming a global pedophile ring existed that Chump would expose and dismantle if re-elected. He got re-elected and the two men were not happy about sudden assertion that there was no "there" there In a meeting with Bondi and White House Chief of Staff Susan Wiles on Wednesday, tempers exploded. Based on this came the statements and whispers that Bongino was considering quitting. And CBS NEWS notes, "Bongino did not show up to work on Friday, according to the sources."
Chump tried playing Rodney King on social media with a version of can't-we-all-get-along and it didn't bury the anger from his one-time followers as MEIDASTOUCH NEWS noted today.
Democrats? We are silly and foolish enough to think we can herd cats. However, we're not insane and believe we can harness crazy. That's Chump. He thought he could harness crazy to get back in the White House and he thought he could stoke it and control it.
While it's true that he uncorked the crazy, he's unable to shove it back into the bottle. These things never end well.
